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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Big Foot when he and the author go to the sea-wall at Dockside?
(a) He cuts his foot badly.
(b) He and the author finally become good friends.
(c) He goes swimming.
(d) He tells the author about his childhood.

2. What does Big Foot do in the cinema one day?
(a) He throws his popcorn into the air.
(b) He sticks a knife in the back of the seat of the author's chair.
(c) He puts his hands around Hat's throat.
(d) He screams at the top of his lungs.

3. What is Big Foot's father?
(a) A priest.
(b) A carpenter.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A farmer.

4. What does the author do for the first time when he arrives in Port of Spain?
(a) Takes a city bus.
(b) Hears a calypso song.
(c) Becomes afraid.
(d) Attends a public school.

5. What makes Morgan crazy with rage?
(a) Nobody uses his fireworks.
(b) His wife nags him.
(c) He has no friends.
(d) He is poor.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author's mother attempt to cure the cut on his shin?

2. What does Mrs. Morgan call Mrs. Bhakcu?

3. What is the heading on the paper Chris, Morgan's fourth son, shows the author?

4. What does Titus Hoyt think will make him an educated man?

5. What is the most the author makes being involved in Hat's racket?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Mr. Titus Hoyt, and when does the author meet him?

2. Who is Eddoes and what does he do for a living?

3. What makes Big Foot grow in prominence and respect on Miguel Street, and how does he lose that respect?

4. Describe Nathaniel and his relationship with Laura.

5. Describe Big Foot and why the author is frightened of him.

6. What does Titus Hoyt urge the author to do, why and against whose wishes?

7. Why do the people of Miguel Street finally laugh at Morgan, and what happens to him then?

8. How does Eddoes use his job to make extra money?

9. What is the main focus of chapter 10 where Laura is introduced to the reader?

10. What does Big Foot do for a living and what happens one day on the beach when the author and Big Foot connect briefly?

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